5.5 Cm Femurs with Dr. Giotikas and G-Nail.

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Unfortunately pain is part of the procedure, in a few week it will be easier. Just hang in there brother, you can do this!!!

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Guys, I'm not talking about normal pain. In fact, pain is just a consequence of the main issue: clicks require each day more twisting. Last week I twisted 25 degrees and got the click. Then 35, 50, 60... now I have to twist 90 (which is crazy, seems like you are dislocating your leg) in order to get the clicks. In fact, in the right leg yesterday I wasn't able to click even with a 90 degree twist. So it's not a matter of pushing on despite of pain, it just doesn't click.

The other patient thinks this is because our knees and parts of our quads are tight and preventing the mechanism to work. The strong bone formation, although unlikely, could also explain this. I'm also getting paranoid about some kind of nail malfunction. To be honest, I'm quite depressed, cause I have complied and done everything well. The idea of this effort and discipline just to get 2 cm makes me want to vomit.

In any case, I realise I might be getting paranoid, and I just have to wait for the X rays these afternoon. I trust the doctor and I hope he provides a solution for me and the other G nail patient. Thanks for your messages of encouragement. I will update as soon as possible.

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Quote from: V21 on September 13, 2021, 06:08:47 AMGuys, I'm not talking about normal pain. In fact, pain is just a consequence of the main issue: clicks require each day more twisting. Last week I twisted 25 degrees and got the click. Then 35, 50, 60... now I have to twist 90 (which is crazy, seems like you are dislocating your leg) in order to get the clicks. In fact, in the right leg yesterday I wasn't able to click even with a 90 degree twist. So it's not a matter of pushing on despite of pain, it just doesn't click.

The other patient thinks this is because our knees and parts of our quads are tight and preventing the mechanism to work. The strong bone formation, although unlikely, could also explain this. I'm also getting paranoid about some kind of nail malfunction. To be honest, I'm quite depressed, cause I have complied and done everything well. The idea of this effort and discipline just to get 2 cm makes me want to vomit.

In any case, I realise I might be getting paranoid, and I just have to wait for the X rays these afternoon. I trust the doctor and I hope he provides a solution for me and the other G nail patient. Thanks for your messages of encouragement. I will update as soon as possible.

If it's in both legs than nail failure is unlikely. If it's just in one leg than you might have a nail dysfunction.

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Quote from: overandover on September 13, 2021, 07:32:35 AMIf it's in both legs than nail failure is unlikely. If it's just in one leg than you might have a nail dysfunction.

It took me around 4 hours initially too. Every click is torture as it pulls on entire strings of muscles throughout your thigh. My left was trivial, but my right knee had the same problem as you did.

Though I had pain clicking since day 1. The fact that you are having problems after a week of easy clicks indicate rapid bone formation, or a muscle knot. Have Giotikas look at your x-ray as well as your thigh/knee muscles.

1) Walk/stretch a lot before clicking as that warms up your muscles.
2) Click in a bathtub with hot water submerging your knees.
3) Make sure to click an hour before you take muscle relaxants and painkillers, as that is when they're at their peak effect.
4) Ask for more painkillers, or local anesthasia.
5) Be prepared that it was clicking hell for me until 3cm, when it became bearable. It was somewhat painful by 5cm, and trivial by 7cm.

This will take up a significant portion of your day.

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Thanks for your messages. Both legs were easy to click last week, and now the issue is also happening in both of them. So yeah, it sounds unlikely that there is a nail problem in both legs, specially because something similar is happening to the other G nail patient. At this point, I think that muscle knots are the problem: there parts of my knee and quads that feel like stones whe you touch them.

Last week, the PT guys focused on flexibility and mobility, but did nothing regarding the muscle knots that were growing cause of the clicks. Today they noticed and changed their aproach, and started doing massages. I do hope this is the issue, and seems likely because the other patient also has "hard" spots on his quads.

Finally, to be precice: the click is not very painful for me, the pain comes for the twisting movement I have to do to get the click. In any case, I will get X rays in 2 hours, so I will keep you posted.

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ty!!!

What are the most difficult tasks for you with the gnail inside of you? Which are the most dangerous in your experience?

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Hey guys. All is good with the nail. My clicking problems are caused by strong bone formation and the inflammation that happens at this stage. In order to solve it, the doctor has given me ibuprofen, which is supposed to fight the inflammation. To be honest, it worked on my left leg: pain went from 7 to 5, and I was able to do all my clicks without screaming. However, my right leg (it's the bad one) felt the same, and I wasn't able to click at all. Dr. says that this leg has much more inflammation, so I have to take a few more pills during the day and try again tomorrow. I will do it, hopefully it works. If it doesn't... what options do I have? Clicking under anesthesia? Besides, due to my strong bone growth, I have do 1.33 mm per day instead of 1 mm, and right now that's impossible to do in my right leg. With luck, I can get one click after trying 45 minutes lol. I hope this leg is better tomorrow.

BTW: I'm at 2.2 cm left leg, 2.1 cm right leg

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it is about the bone intensification which blocks the nail that starts at the 15 days for 10 days the doctor Guichet   give 1.5 minutes during this period of 10 days really difficult and painful the great problem of the GNAIL then all will be well until the end.

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Quote from: V21 on September 13, 2021, 07:14:40 PMHey guys. All is good with the nail. My clicking problems are caused by strong bone formation and the inflammation that happens at this stage. In order to solve it, the doctor has given me ibuprofen, which is supposed to fight the inflammation. To be honest, it worked on my left leg: pain went from 7 to 5, and I was able to do all my clicks without screaming. However, my right leg (it's the bad one) felt the same, and I wasn't able to click at all. Dr. says that this leg has much more inflammation, so I have to take a few more pills during the day and try again tomorrow. I will do it, hopefully it works. If it doesn't... what options do I have? Clicking under anesthesia? Besides, due to my strong bone growth, I have do 1.33 mm per day instead of 1 mm, and right now that's impossible to do in my right leg. With luck, I can get one click after trying 45 minutes lol. I hope this leg is better tomorrow.

BTW: I'm at 2.2 cm left leg, 2.1 cm right leg

Ibuprofien might also slow down the bone growth so it'll hopefully get better.

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Keep up the good work.  You are fighting through the difficult part.  Precise is starting to look more attractive with the magnetic movements but then is that better than not being able to bear weight?  who knows.  No matter which way we go, the path is not easy.